States of Invention: Disorientation and Parangolé

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dc.contributor.advisorde Laforcade, Sonia
dc.contributor.authorMaher, Liam
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-24T17:17:37Z
dc.date.available2020-09-24T17:17:37Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-24
dc.description.abstractThe complexity of Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés poses a challenge to art historians. The multiplicity of the Parangolés’ iterations coupled with their unclear history make them hard to define, and consequently hard to put in dialogue with other aesthetic practices. As a performance rooted in improvisation, Parangolé is mutable and morphological in its methodologies. They are performances of queerness, experiments in how queerness is activated as a mode of inquiry. To inhabit queer space in these ways is to explore methods for combatting injustice, conditioning, and complacency. Using Hélio Oiticica’s words, Parangolés initiate a “state of invention” that turns viewers into co-creators, participators who collectively watch and wear Parangolé objects as a means towards queer ends.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25646
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectImprovisationen_US
dc.subjectOiticicaen_US
dc.subjectParangoléen_US
dc.subjectPerformance arten_US
dc.subjectPhenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectQueeren_US
dc.titleStates of Invention: Disorientation and Parangolé
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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